The Men at Work thing is always there, it’s always going to be there. It’s not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

— Colin Hay

Colin Hay Quotes

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

— Colin Hay

It’s great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I’ve always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

— Colin Hay

Fun

I just found over the years that it’s very hard to change people’s perception of what it is that you do.

— Colin Hay

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

— Colin Hay

I do like writing songs in a band. When it’s rock, it’s such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

— Colin Hay

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

— Colin Hay

The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you’re older than that, you don’t tend to go out to shows anymore. So it’s good if you can attract a younger audience because they’ve got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.

— Colin Hay

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It’s usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

— Colin Hay

The Men at Work thing is always there, it’s always going to be there. It’s not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

— Colin Hay

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

— Colin Hay

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

— Colin Hay

It’s frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it’s just so difficult to cut through.

— Colin Hay

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years – you’ve got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that’s what I’ve been doing.

— Colin Hay

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

— Colin Hay

Sometimes there’s a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

— Colin Hay

You don’t want to get worse at something.

— Colin Hay

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

— Colin Hay

I sit around and play acoustic guitar – usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

— Colin Hay

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

— Colin Hay

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